On 2022-Oct-04, Ron wrote: > Sometimes (both interactively and via script) I access a remote Pg server > via just the bare host name "foobar", and other times via the FQDN > "foobar.example.com". > > I've only been able to get this to work by having two lines in the .pgpass file: Maybe it would be simpler to do this using a service definition in the ~/.pg_service.conf file. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq-pgservice.html -- Álvaro Herrera PostgreSQL Developer — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/